The Poet as Translator: The Poetic Vision of John Betjeman
Rainer Maria Rilke (1989) describes the quest of the poet as that of saying the “unsayable.” Similarly, poets like Ezra Pound and Octavio Paz suggest that when the poetic essence is beyond the words, then the poem enters the realm of the “untranslatable” and invites an act of translation. John Betje...
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Lasting Impressions Press
2013-12-01
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| Series: | International Journal of English Language and Translation Studies |
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| Online Access: | http://www.eltsjournal.org/pdf_files/The%20Poet%20as%20Translator-The%20Poetic%20Vision%20of%20John%20Betjeman-Full%20Paper.pdf |